Display-holder.



I. STRANDERS.

DISPLAY HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 5. I915.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

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J'ULIEN STRANDERS, 0F BROQKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EIBERHARD FAIBER PENCIL COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPOMTION OF NEW YORK.

DISPLAY-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

Application filed October 6, 1915. Serial No. 54,327.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JULIEN STRANDERS, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of the borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York,

have invented certain and useful Improvements in Display-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to display holders for cards formed of cardboard, or other suitable material, in the form of stiff sheets.

My invention provides a holder ofthis character which may be formed in a very simple and inexpensive manner, a portion of the sheet, preferably the central longitudinal portion, being creased along parallel lines along which it may be bent so as to stand up from the general plane of the sheet. The side members of the outwardly bent portion are provided with alined openings, through which pencils, pens, or the like, may be extended to display the same. A locking device is provided comprising a locking ear or cars which are adapted to engage with alined slits in the sheet to hold the display portion of the sheet in its desired osition.

In the preferred embodiment of my invention, transverse slits areeut in the sheet at each end of the central longitudinal portion referred to, at a'short distance from each end of the sheet. The sheet is then cut longitudinally from each end ,to the adjacent transverse slit by a pair of parallel cuts at each end to form separated edges, one of which at each end howlocking a longitudinal slit in alinement with each locking ear, the ears being adapted to extend through these slits into locking engagement therewith to hold the card in adjusted position with the central portion upstanding in position to receive the pencils or other objects to be displayed. By disengaging the locking ears from their slits, the card or holder may readily be flattened out for transportation or for impressing any desired printed or stenciled matter on the display portion.

In order that my invention may be more clearly understood, attention is hereb directed to the accomapnying drawings orming part of this application and illustrating certain embodiments of my invention.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a plan view of the display holder in adjusted position with a number of pencils displayed therein, Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the holder in opened position, Fig, 3 is a section taken on line 33 of Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a side elevation corresponding to Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the card 1, preferably of cardboard, is slit transversely along lines 2, 2 parallel to the end edges 3, 3 of the card. These transverse slits bound the central longitudinal portion of the sheet which is creased along a. number of longitudinal lines, three or more in number, to permit the same to be bent so as to stand up from the plane of the surounding portions of the sheet. I prefer to crease the card along four longitudinal lines 4, 5, 6 and 7, so as to provide side portions 8, 8, and a top portion 9. The side portions 8, 8 are provided with alined openings 10, through which the objects to be displayed, such as the pencils 11, may be inserted. In this case, the top portion 9 may have any desired descriptive or advertising matter, marked or printed thereon, before the holder has been opened up into its display position. Instead 0 creasing the central portion of the card along four lines, as stated, it is possible to crease the same along three parallel lines to form the bases and apex of a structure which is triangular in cross-section when the same is opened up, as will be obvious.

The transverse slits 2 are connected with the adjacent ends of the card by longitudinal cutout, portions. These may be formed by cutting the card along lines 12, 12, from the adjacent ends 3 to the transverse slits 2, and then cutting the card along lines 13, 13, which lines are parallel at their end portions to the lines 12, integral lugs or ears 14 being left however. These ears are each of a length equal to the distance between lines 12 and 13 and are provided with under cuts 15 adjacent the bases of the ears, on the same side of each. The sheet is provided with looking slits 16, 16 extending longitudinally and in alinement with ears 14, these slits.

jacent ends of slits 16, as is shown in Fig. 1. The end portions of the sheet terminating in edges 12 now lie flat underneath the portions of the sheet terminating in edges 13, and the ears 14 correspondingly lie under the portions of the sheet beyond the slits 16, the lines 13 lying in substantial alinement with slits 16 approximately on the longitudinal center line of the sheet.

The holder may be displayed by securing the same to any desired stand or easel support or the like, with either a side edge or end edge at the bottom, as is obvious.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. A display holder for pencils, etc., comprising a stiff sheet having a central longitudinal portion, bounded at the ends by transverse slits, said central portion being creased along longitudinal lines, to be adapted to be bent and stand up from the plane of the surrounding portions of the sheet with separated side portions, said side portions having openings therethrough, to receive articles to be displayed; said sheet having longitudinal cut-out portions extending from its ends to said transverse slits, with a locking ear formed on one of the edges of each cut-out portion, and a longitudinal slit at each end in alinement with each said ear, said ears being adapted to extend through said slits in looking engagement when said central portion stands up from the sheet, substantially as set forth.

2. A displa holder for pencils, etc., comprising a stifi sheet having a central longitudinal portion bounded at one end bysa transverse slit, said central portion being creased along longitudinal lines, to be adapt ed to be bent and stand u from the plane of the body of the sheet with separated side portions, said side portions having openings therethrough, to receive articles to be displayed; said sheet having a longitudinal cut-out portion extending from said transverse slit to the adjacent end of the sheet, with a locking ear formed on one of the edges of the cut-out portion, and a longitudinal slit in alinement with said ear, adapted to receive said ear in looking engagement when said central portion stands up from the sheets, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 1st day of October, 1915.

J ULIEN STRANDERS.

Witnesses C. H. KAPrEs, F. M. SHAW.

jacent ends of slits 16, as is shown in Fig. 1. The end portions of the sheet terminating in edges 12 now lie flat underneath the portions of the sheet terminating in edges 18, and the ears 14 correspondingly lie under the portions of the sheet beyond the slits 16, the lines 13 lying in substantial alinement with slits 16 approximately on the longitudinal center line of the sheet.

Corrections Letters Patent'No. 1,176,786.

The holder may be displayed by securing the same to any desired stand or easel support or the like, with either a side edge or end edge at the bottom, as is obvious.

Having now described my'invention, What I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows 1. A display holder for pencils, etc., comprising a stiff sheet having a central longitudinal portion, bounded at the ends by transverse slits, said central portion being creased along longitudinal lines, to be adapted to be bent and stand up from the plane of the surrounding portions of the sheet with separated side portions, said side portions having openings therethrough, to receive articles to be displayed; said sheet having longitudinal cut-out portions extending from its, ends to said transverse slits, with a locking ear formed on one of the edges of each cut-out portion, and a record of the case in the Patent Otfice.

Signed and sealed this 25th day ofA fil, A. 1)., 191a longitudinal slit at each end in alinement with each said ear, said ears being-adapted to extend through said slits in looking engagement when said central portion stands displayed; said sheet having a longitudinal cut-out portion extending from said transverse slit to the adjacent end of the sheet, with a locking ear formed on one of the edges of the cut-out portion, and a longi v tudinal slit in alinement With said ear, adapted to receive said ear in looking engagement when said central portion stands up from the sheets, substantially as set forth. This specification signed and witnessed this 1st day of October, 1915.

J ULIEN STRANDERS.

WVitnesses C. H. KAPPES, F. M.'SHAW.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,176,786, granted March 28,1916,

upon the application of Julien Stranders, of Brooklyn, New York, for an improve- Y ment in Display-Holders, errors appear in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 52, for the Word accomapnying read accompany- I my; same page, line 70, for the word "surounding read surrounding; page 2, I line 53, claim 2, for the jword sheets read sheet; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform tothe I J. T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 1,176,786, granted March 28,1916,

upon the application of Julien Strande rs, of Brooklyn, New York, for an improveintent in Display-Holders, errors appear in the printed specificatioh requiring correction as follows: Page 1, line 52, for the word accomapnying read accompanying; same page, line 70, for the word surounding reed surrounding; page 2,

line 53, claim 2, for the .word sheets read sheet;.and that the said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oifice.

Signed and sealed this 25th day of April, A. 1)., 1916.

1 J. T. NEWTON,

Acting Commissioner of Patents.

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